The GSMA announced the winners of the 2022 Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards at MWC Barcelona, recognizing contribution of companies, individuals and governments who have driven the most innovation in the mobile industry.
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The GLOMO Awards are the most prestigious accolade in the mobile industry. The awards are judged by more than 200 independent industry experts, analysts, journalists, academics, and mobile operator representatives.
Winners of the 2022 GLOMO Awards:
Mobile Technology category:
CTO’s Choice Award
Samsung Networks for fully virtualized 5G RAN solution
Best Mobile Network Infrastructure
Huawei for New FDD Gigaband MIMO Modules
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Samsung Networks for fully virtualized 5G RAN solution
Best Network Software Breakthrough
Rakuten Mobile for 5G Open RAN
Best Digital Tech Breakthrough (Companies under $10M Annual Global Revenue)
AccelerComm for 5G physical layer IP for Open RAN that Maximizes Spectral Efficiency
Best Mobile Authentication & Security Solution
AdaptiveMobile Security, an Enea Company, for the World’s First Unified 5G Network Security Solution
5G Industry Partnership Award
China Unicom Beijing and Huawei for 5G Capital’s Meta Life on Gigabit Society
Industry X category:
Best Mobile Operator Service for Connected Consumers
Veon Group for MobileID
Best Mobile Innovation for the Connected Economy
Tianjin Port, Huawei and China Mobile for Port Renaissance, Intelligent Twin empowers a Smart, Green Tianjin Port
Best Mobile Innovation for the Connected Human
Huawei for 5G Smart Healthcare Lights up Hainan Healthy Island
Best Mobile Innovation for Connected Living
Safaricom for M-PESA App
Device category:
Best Smartphone
Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max
Disruptive Device Innovation Award
Oppo for its Hinge & Display Integration on the FIND N
Best Connected Consumer Device
ZTE for Next-Gen Cloud AI Home Security Camera Pro
Tech 4 Good category:
Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets
Starlogik IP LLC for StarZRO
Best Mobile Innovation supporting Emergency or Humanitarian Situations
Hormuud Telecoms for The WAAFI APP
Best Mobile Innovation for Accessibility & Inclusion
SK Telecom and Tuat for AI-based Visual Assistant Service ‘Sullivan Plus X NUGU’
Best Mobile Innovation for Climate Action
China Mobile and Huawei for Green 5G Project
Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the UN SDGs
Safaricom, Close the Gap and Huawei for DigiTruck Project
Government Leadership category:
Government leadership Award
Government of Spain
Outstanding Achievement category:
Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry
Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU
Diversity in Tech Award:
Vodafone for #ChangeTheFace Leadership Alliance
Best Innovation for COVID-19 Response & Recovery:
Telit and Controlant for Cellular IoT rollout for COVID-19 vaccine distribution
4YFN category:
4YFN Award:
HumanITcare, using Artificial Intelligence to improve access to healthcare
